It's when vendors start adding things, like extra buttons, motion, or other
features that they get wonky, much like any usb, network, or other camera.
As a standard, UVC anything should work, but beware fancy devices with
features, you're better off with an older, more basic device that just does
its job well as a camera and nothing else.

Note some include a microphone, this has never ended well with different
input/output sinks for conference calls.  My logitech does add a mic, I
always get echo/feedback, in general vitriol from participants if I dare us
it.  I tend to stick to a single input/output device for audio like my
jabra 510 puck.  I suspect pulseaudio muxing latency.

-mb


On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:55 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:48 PM mike enriquez wrote:
> >> I have Ubuntu and I would like to attach a camera so I can use
> >> "Zoom". Can anyone in the group give me the name of a good
> >> camera?
> On 2020-04-23 13:04, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > The older the better if it meets your resolution standard, but these
> > are pretty standard (and cheap used).
>
> To expand on this:  USB video cameras that have been made at least in
> the last 10 years (and probably before that) are supposed to follow a
> standard.  This is the USB Video Class standard, and so far, I think the
> webcams I've seen that have USB interfaces have all followed this
> standard and been usable once the uvcvideo kernel module has been
> loaded.  Most distros will do that automatically.  Yes, this includes
> the last 2 Lenovo Thinkpads I had that included built-in webcams.
>
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